US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on Feb. 3 for "Drag reduction fin deployment mechanism" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,804, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Drag reduction fin deployment mechanism" was invented by Matthew M. Hall (Nashua, N.H.), Jack T. Nigro (Nashua, N.H.), Elizabeth A. Deloia (Westford, Mass.), Ross J. Wendell (Medford, Mass.) and Richard N. Jorgenson (Amherst, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projectile having a body that includes a nose, a tail opposite to the nose, a chamber defined between the tail and the nose, and a longitudinal axis defined between the nose and the tail. The projectile also includes a payload stored in the chamber of the bo...